Fso Safer News Today

from seoul, heres yuna ku. another devastating summer in south korea. days of torrential rain have caused landslides, flash flooding and a considerable loss of life and livelihoods. in the city of cheongiu rescuers are trying to reach people trapped in their vehicles in a flooded tunnel after water poured into the underpass so quickly they could not escape. 15 vehicles and dozens of people are known to be trapped inside. translation: we are trying our best right now but its difficult _...

The seaport would be locked, and no commercial ships can go there and pick up all the food. Supply will be stopped. We calculated over 200,000 families would be affected, losing their livelihood, probably for a generation, 25 years. The clean up would have cost 20 billion, thats the best estimate that we received. In 1989, the Exxon Valdez Spill leaked Hundreds Of Thousands of gallons of crude into the gulf of alaska, a slick that covered over 1,000 miles of coastline. Even now, pockets of oil a...

Mounting maritime security threats off Yemen's coast have stalled work on scrapping a decrepit oil tanker, officials have told AFP, jeopardising a rare success story in the war-torn country.- Yemen's rival authorities in Sanaa and Aden are at odds over who owns the oil that was on the Safer as well as the new tanker that now holds it, the MT-Yemen. 

Most of the oil on board a rusting supertanker off war-torn Yemen has been moved to a replacement vessel in a bid to avert a catastrophic spill, the United Nations has said."More than half the oil aboard the decaying FSO Safer has been transferred to the replacement vessel Yemen in the past seven days," the UN resident coordinator for Yemen, David Gressly, said on social media on Tuesday.

The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has started implementing a project to prevent a massive oil spill from a supertanker off Yemen's Red Sea coast with the removal of more than 1 million barrels of oil from the decaying vessel.

Yemen: "The United Nations has begun an operation to defuse what might be the worlds largest ticking time bomb," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement.

After years of warnings of a potential disaster, more than 1.1M barrels of oil is finally being siphoned off the FSO Safer.

Yemen: "The United Nations has begun an operation to defuse what might be the worlds largest ticking time bomb," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement.

Greenpeace Thursday praised a "risky" UN-led operation to transfer oil from a rusting Yemen tanker, but warned the threat of environmental catastrophe cannot be ruled out until the operation ends."The threat cannot be averted until the oil is completely and safely removed," it warned in a statement.

Of yemen to begin a delicate operation to pump more than a million barrels of oil from a rusting ship, in danger of breaking up. the fso safer has been left abandoned off the yemeni port of hodeidah for the past eight years and threatens a major environmental disaster if it disintegrates or explodes. nick quinn, whos advising on the operation, says the extreme heat is not helping: it is extremely hot out there. 40 degrees ambient temperature on the boat will be on a steel deck 15—35 c. getting...